Executive order also aims to declassify federal records on killings of Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King

Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades.

The executive order the president signed on Thursday also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Robert F Kennedy and the Rev Martin Luther King Jr. The order is among a flurry of executive actions Trump has quickly taken the first week of his second term.

A 17-year-old fatally shot one student, injured two others, and killed himself at Antioch high school on Wednesday

A 17-year-old gunman opened fire in a Nashville-area high school cafeteria on Wednesday, killing one student and wounding two others.

With an investigation underway, here is what we know so far:

Sam Kuffel’s departure comes after far-right radio host slams her condemnation of X owner’s apparent Nazi salute

A Milwaukee meteorologist has been fired from her TV station after she criticized Elon Musk’s apparent fascist salutes during Donald Trump’s inaugural celebrations.

On Wednesday, staff members at the CBS affiliate Channel 58 were notified of the meteorologist Sam Kuffel’s departure from the news station, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

Donald Trump signed executive order to rename body of water in honor of ‘American greatness’

The US Coast Guard (USCG) and the state of Florida have started referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America – a new label pushed by Donald Trump – despite the name of the body of water not yet being formally changed.

On Tuesday, following a flurry of executive orders signed by Trump on his first days in office, the USCG announced that it would deploy additional assets to multiple locations, including the “maritime border between Texas and Mexico in the ‘Gulf of America’”. Similarly, Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, cited the new moniker in a winter storm executive order on Monday, saying “an area of low pressure [was] moving across the Gulf of America”.